Is it ethical for medicine to use patients as learning tools for medical students if these patients have not been given a chance to provide truly informed consent? Dr. Caroline Shooner raises this question in the following article, which claimed second prize in CMAJ's 1996 Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest. She considers the case of a patient whose trust was shaken when a medical student perfo...

OBJECTIVE To explore the process of final year Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for improving the quality of assessment. METHODS The analytical cross-sectional study was conducted with purposive sampling on one-year Medicine Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) scores of Final Year batch of 2009 at the Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad. The scores from December ...

Behaviour change is key to increasing the uptake of evidence into healthcare practice. Designing behaviour-change interventions first requires problem analysis, ideally informed by theory. Yet the large number of partly overlapping theories of behaviour makes it difficult to select the most appropriate theory. The need for an overarching theoretical framework of behaviour change was addressed i...

A survey of the use of graph theoretical techniques in Biology is presented. In particular, recent work on identifying and modelling the structure of bio-molecular networks is discussed, as well as the application of centrality measures to interaction networks and research on the hierarchical structure of such networks and network motifs. Work on the link between structural network properties a...

Eggs and egg products form an integral part of the food chain. As such, research into egg structure, function, and production has made an important contribution to the field of poultry science. The past decade has seen significant advances in avian egg science research, with work supplementing our understanding of the nature of the avian egg, and its biological, chemical, and physical propertie...

Directed networks are ubiquitous and are necessary to represent complex systems with asymmetric interactions--from food webs to the World Wide Web. Despite the importance of edge direction for detecting local and community structure, it has been disregarded in studying a basic type of global diversity in networks: the tendency of nodes with similar numbers of edges to connect. This tendency, ca...

Supplementary data ml http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2012/11/28/rstb.2012.0084.DC1.ht "Data Supplement" References http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1610/20120084.full.html#ref-list-1 This article cites 45 articles, 6 of which can be accessed free Subject collections (24 articles) theoretical biology • (555 articles) evolution • (412 articles) ecology •...

There is convincing evidence that targeting self-efficacy is an effective means of increasing physical activity. However, evidence concerning which are the most effective techniques for changing self-efficacy and thereby physical activity is lacking. The present review aims to estimate the association between specific intervention techniques used in physical activity interventions and change ob...

Let G be a locally compact group. Consider the Banach algebra L1(G) ∗∗, equipped with the first Arens multiplication, as well as the algebra LUC(G)∗, the dual of the space of bounded left uniformly continuous functions on G, whose product extends the convolution in the measure algebra M(G). We present (for the most interesting case of a non-compact group) completely different – in particular, d...

emotional freedom technique (eft) as a new therapeutic technique in energy psychology has positive effects on psychological and physiological symptoms, and quality of life. in this research we studied the effect of this treatment on immunological factors. this study tested whether 8-week group sessions of eft (compared to a wait-list control group) with emphasis on patient's respiratory, psycho...